"Lift And Rotate" Cart For Planters, Drills
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With some states getting tougher on road safety rules for farm equipment, and others sure to follow, AGCO has responded by building a "lift and rotate" cart for planters and grain drills that greatly reduces road transport width. It was on display - equipped with two on-board 200-gal. liquid fertilizer tanks - at the recent Ohio Farm Science Review near Columbus.
The cart allows you to switch from planting to transport position right from the tractor. It's equipped with a 3-pt. quick hitch and is designed to accommodate a 20 or 30-ft. 3-pt. hitch planter or grain drill. You just back the cart up to the planter or drill and pick it up.
"It provides a narrow 9-ft. 10-in. transport width," says sales engineer Gary Hamilton. "The cart can accept either rigid or flex frame implements. It offers a way to reduce planter width without modifying planter components. Our lift and rotate cart equipped with a planter is priced about the same as our model 8180 forward fold planter, but it has a 5-ft. narrower transport width."
Hamilton says AGCO plans to build a pilot run of models this winter for use next spring.
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"Lift And Rotate" Cart For Planters, Drills PLANTERS Planters 25-6-26 With some states getting tougher on road safety rules for farm equipment, and others sure to follow, AGCO has responded by building a "lift and rotate" cart for planters and grain drills that greatly reduces road transport width. It was on display - equipped with two on-board 200-gal. liquid fertilizer tanks - at the recent Ohio Farm Science Review near Columbus.
The cart allows you to switch from planting to transport position right from the tractor. It's equipped with a 3-pt. quick hitch and is designed to accommodate a 20 or 30-ft. 3-pt. hitch planter or grain drill. You just back the cart up to the planter or drill and pick it up.
"It provides a narrow 9-ft. 10-in. transport width," says sales engineer Gary Hamilton. "The cart can accept either rigid or flex frame implements. It offers a way to reduce planter width without modifying planter components. Our lift and rotate cart equipped with a planter is priced about the same as our model 8180 forward fold planter, but it has a 5-ft. narrower transport width."
Hamilton says AGCO plans to build a pilot run of models this winter for use next spring.
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